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Sweet Talkin' Woman · Electric Light Orchestra

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
4 groovesCES1S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweet Talkin' Woman on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-83, silence through bars 84-85, hi-hat through bars 86-98, kick and crashes through bars 99-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-114.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-15, 21-23 and 25-32, and 8 more places -- 74.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Sweet Talkin' Woman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 7, 86, 99 and 100.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sweet Talkin' Woman?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Sweet Talkin' Woman hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sweet Talkin' Woman?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 7, 86, 99 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED